Pastor Dan Hermanson – Mar 2024
Simple familiar words spoken: “The body of Christ, given for you.” “The blood of Christ, shed for you.” In these small acts and few words, Christians return to the heart of our faith, joining ourselves together with every other believer, not just across the world, but in an age old continuity reaching back to Jesus himself.
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“For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4:6)
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Jan 2024
As we enter this new year, the year of Mark, here is what you need to know. Mark’s Gospel is written from a very definite perspective.
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Dec 2023
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith: as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Nov 2023
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith: as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Oct 2023
I suppose that is precisely the transformation, to be stripped of our illusions, to gain some clarity about who we are and what we are up to. For what do we have in the end but the shocking realization that we are saved by grace alone?
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – Sept 2023
I suppose that is precisely the transformation, to be stripped of our illusions, to gain some clarity about who we are and what we are up to. For what do we have in the end but the shocking realization that we are saved by grace alone?
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – August 2023
Dear friends in Christ at Peace and Grue, The most hopeful affirmation in Christian life occurs at the graveside: “In sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to almighty God our brother/sister and we commit his/her body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, […]
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Dear friends in Christ at Peace and Grue, I don’t often focus on more than one passage at a time. But from time to time, the passages and/or context seem to just fit, and this is one of those times. The passages are assigned for the seventh week of Easter (John 17:1-11 and Acts 1:6-14) […]
Continue readingPastor Dan Hermanson – May 2023
Dear friends in Christ at Peace and Grue, “Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing then in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe […]
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